Hello,

I've recently acquired an AlphaServer 300 4/266 equipped with a nice
ZLXP-E3, and I must say, NetBSD works like a charm on it.  However,
and I suppose I have only myself to blame for mixing 'old' and 'new'
hardware like this, scrolling the mouse invariably crashes XdecNetBSD
(and XalphaNetBSD too, for that matter).  

Now, at the moment, I'm building xsrc in the vain hope that XFree86
might be better equipped to handle such strange novelty mice, but is
this at all a sane thing to do?  I've googled a bit on XFree86 on
NetBSD/alpha, and the consensus seemed to be that XFree86 on alpha is
a questionable solution at best, although I've read yet other claims
that XFree86 had improved its support for non-Intel hardware in
version 4.

So, has anyone else encountered this problem?  Is there perhaps a way
to configure XdecNetBSD not to crash?  Will XFree86 solve all my
problems?  Or should I just go look for a PS/2 mouse without a
scrollwheel?

-- 
mvg,
Michiel